RE: Isn’t pantheism the same thing as atheism?
March 16, 2021 at 2:13 am
(This post was last modified: March 16, 2021 at 2:17 am by Seax.)
(March 16, 2021 at 2:08 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: If we thought of a bus as all the people and the metal - BusGod....would one person on the bus wanting to fry cabbage on the bus...be the Will of the Bus....?
A bus is merely one small part of nature, your analogy, while amusing, is ridiculous. You can't compare a bus with reality itself.
(March 15, 2021 at 10:51 pm)Belacqua Wrote:(March 15, 2021 at 10:30 pm)Ferrocyanide Wrote: Also, before science came along, no one (or should I give some leeway here?) claimed that those were allegories. If I am wrong, they are free to show me a church claimed that those were allegories. I want to see an original print, coming from a top guy at a church.
When did science "come along"? When Aristotle went to do research at the Kolpos Kalloni on Lesbos? That would be before the Christian church was founded.
Jesus spoke in parables, which he explained in private as allegory. He was kind of an important guy in the church. Paul interpreted Old Testament stories as allegory. He is also considered a "top guy."
Augustine wrote a whole book on not taking the book of Genesis literally. This was about 400 AD.
I think generally most people count the Scientific Revolution as the start of science. I think that is Ferro's meaning.
